One way or another, more and more of us plan to continue working past the traditional retirement age. One reason for this trend is financial. So what’s happening and what’s the best way to ensure we meet our retirement expectations?

Saving enough to fund your retirement is the primary goal for most investors. But the UK government has imposed an onerous 55% tax charge for pension pots breaching a £1 million lifetime allowance. How much should you have saved, and at what age, to get there?

Life expectancy in the UK has increased by 15.5 years for men and 14.4 years for women since 1946, while the average retirement age has remained relatively unchanged. That’s a problem. Will an individual’s final pension pot be large enough to fund their entire retirement?

Over the past 20 years investors have made large amounts of money from owning buy to let property. More recently the UK Government has made the asset class far less attractive by increasing taxes and changing wear and tear allowances. Here we explain why making payments into personal pensions are...

The amount that any person needs for their retirement is on the increase thanks to rising life expectancy. And in a pensions revolution, the UK government is encouraging everybody to take much more responsibility for their own retirement. That means taking the time to understand your future needs...

Recent news headlines have not been supportive of pensioners. An end to the ‘triple lock’, a rise in the state pension age, and an OECD report advocating denying the wealthy any state pension at all. In the face of this assault we look at the options that savers have to provide for their retireme...

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